This post has created a little buzz and some interesting conversation about the church and our culture. I just ran across an article that continues the discussion.
"Many Christians just don't believe that culture matters. Oddly enough, they often forbid North American missionaries to do the very thing that they expect international missionaries to do. Entire ministries exist to tell you the evils of culture - and those evils do exist. But preaching against culture is like preaching against someone's house - it is just where we live. There are good things, there are bad things, but it must be taken into account.
Place and people matter. For us to take the unchanging gospel into a changed context requires an awareness of both. It means that we 'contend for the faith that once was entrusted to the saints' (Jude 3) while we contextualize and become 'all things to all people, that I might by all means save some" (1 Cor. 9:22). A missional church will both contend and contextualize."
Breaking the Missional Code by Ed Stetzer, as appeared in REV! magazine.
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Good article. This is a great subject to discuss in length. I wish we could take a sunday night and just discuss it as a church. That might get really ugly though, so maybe it would be cool in a small group setting.
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